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- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I stated that the Deputy's amendments are not legally robust. I was not referring to my amendments, which are legally robust.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: However, the grounds I have given surely stand up to any kind of scrutiny. The Minister is rejecting them out of hand rather than accepting that there is a valid principle. He is saying that the wording I have put forward is not legally robust. Why is he not then seeking legally robust wording-----
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I am.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: -----to amend this legislation now-----
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Time.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: -----and not at some point in the future?
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Time.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: This is legislating in haste. The approach the Minister is taking is just not very satisfactory. It is about speed rather than provisions that are legally sound. I am disappointed with his response.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: To be clear, I am stating that we need a legally robust version of what the Deputy is attempting to do. The limited exemptions we are putting in place are legally robust because they are limited. Let us play it out. We could do it the Deputy's way. We could say we will take some time and bring this into the Seanad on Committee Stage. We will give it a few weeks. That is what it will...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I know it all.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: They will have numerous conflicting pressures, and this could take a long time. I am stating clearly that I am not willing to take that risk. I commit to having this Bill passed for the children and parents who are desperately waiting for it. If that means also having amending legislation going in parallel immediately after we come back in September, that is absolutely what I am proposing....
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Nobody wants to see this Bill falling, but the Minister has had quite a bit of time on it, and I would expect that he addresses the uncertainties there at the moment. It is regrettable that he has not done that. I have to say it is not great practice from the point of view of legislation that is so important. It is a pity we are not getting it right first time round.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendment No. 45 has been agreed. As a result, amendment No. 46 in the name of Deputy Shortall cannot be moved.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment No. 46 not moved.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 47: In page 78, to delete lines 16 and 17 and substitute the following: “(a) the law of the jurisdiction relating to surrogacy, including whether or not that law— (i) permits a commercial surrogacy referred to in section 93, and (ii) requires intending parents or one of them (or, in the case of a single intending parent, that intending parent)...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 48: In page 80, to delete line 35 and substitute “specified in section 107(2);”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 49: In page 81, line 13, after “satisfied” to insert “, based on the information available to the AHRRA,”.